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"Forsyth" refers to the translation of In Girum Imus Nocte et Consumimur Igni by Lucy Forsyth (Pelagian Press,
London, 1991). See
http://www.bopsecrets.org/recent/responses.htm 'Translating
Debord (III)', for further references in Knabb.Hurlements en faveur de Sade

p. 4, line 22:
“The river and the misery continue" for “L’Isère et la misère
continuent" could be left in French.

p.43, “Subtitles":
Cf. “A single feeling is only a part and not the whole of life; the life present in a single feeling dissolves its
barriers and drives on till it disperses itself in the manifold of feelings with a view to finding itself in the
entirety of this manifold…In love the separate still does remain, but as something united and no longer as something
separate; life senses life." Hegel, Love (fragment) in Early Theological Writings, trans. (from the German) by T.M.
Knox (University of Chicago Press, 1948).

p. 53,
“Text Frame": Cf. “Just as supremacy passed from immediate artistic practice
to theory as such so now theory cedes before self-begetting, synthetic, post-theoretical praxis whose unprecedented
vocation is to be the basis and truth of art as well as of philosophy." Selected Writings of August Cieszkowski,
edited and trans. by André Liebich (Cambridge University Press, 1979).

p. 68,
“Text Frame": Cf. “Man reverts once more to living in a cave... Moreover, the
worker has no more than a precarious right to live in it, for it is for him an alien power that can be daily withdrawn
[une puissance étrangère qui peut lui faire défaut d’un jour à l’autre] and from which, should he fail to pay, he can
be evicted at any time. He actually has to pay for this mortuary." Marx, Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of
1844 in Early Writings, trans. by Rodney Livingstone and Gregor Benton (Penguin, 1975, p. 359). Cf. the French
translation from the German used by Debord: “L’homme recommence à loger dans des cavernes mais…l’ouvrier ne les
habite qu’à titre précaire et elles sont pour lui une puissance étrangère qui peut lui faire défaut d’un jour à
l’autre, et il peut aussi, d’un jour à l’autre, en être expulsé s’il ne paie pas. Cette maison de mort, il faut
qu’il la paie."

p.97,
“Subtitle": “But if we consider the content of this experience…the positive that it negates." Cf. “If, however,
we consider the content of this experience in its completeness, it is seen to be the vanishing work…the vanishing is
itself actual and is bound up with the work and vanishes with it; the negative itself perishes along with the
positive whose negative it is." Hegel, Phenomenology of Spirit, trans. by A.V. Miller, OUP, p. 245.

p. 99,
“Text Frame": quotation from Clausewitz. Cf. “Not what we have argued but the manner in which we have argued may,
we believe, benefit theory. Of course, to repeat what we have often said, here as in all practical matters theory
has the function to form the practical man and to educate his judgment, rather than to assist him directly in the
execution of his tasks." From Carl von Clausewitz, Strategic Critique of the Campaign of 1814 in France in
Historical and Political Writings, ed. and trans. (from the German) by Peter Paret and Daniel Moran (Princeton
University Press, 1992, p. 208).
Refutation of All the Judgements, Laudatory as Well as Hostile [tant élogieux qu’hostiles], Passed up to Now on the Film "The Society of the Spectacle"

p.126, lines 10-16:
“It’s no more contradictory than it is for someone to pride himself
on having remained anonymously silent since 1968 while admitting that he has not even reached the point of scorning
his professors" for “Pourquoi verrait-on qu’il est contradictoire de se donner pour un anonyme qui a tellement muté
après 1968, et d’avouer que l’on n’en est même pas encore arrivé à mépriser les professeurs?". The restructuring
apart, this seems to be based on a misreading of “qui a tellement muté" and mirrors a similar error in “Society of
the Spectacle and Other Films" (trans. & edited by Richard Parry, Rebel Press, London, 1992): “Why should one see
that it is contradictory to give oneself out (sic) as anonymous who has remained so utterly silent after 1968 and to
admit that one has not even arrived at despising the professoriat?" Something like “Indeed, why should it be seen as
any more contradictory to claim on the one hand to be some anonymous character who has flitted from one post to
another ever since 1968 while admitting on the other that you have not even reached the stage of despising
professors?" might be better.
In Girum Imus Nocte Et Consumimur Igni

p. 133, line 9:
“not even one like that of the age of Pericles" sounds odd for “fût-il composé des contemporains de Périclès". “Were
it composed even of Pericles’ contemporaries" would be better.

p. 134, line 4:
“impudence" for “le cynisme" [cynicism]?

line 5:
“they don’t avenge". Perhaps: “they leave unavenged".

p. 135, line 24:
“that reinforce the power of their masters" is strange for “qui correspondent aux intérêts de leurs maîtres" ; “that
square/equate with their masters’ interests" would be better.

p. 136, lines 20-21:
“which one day tell them one thing and the next day perhaps thevery opposite" for “[leur faisant admettre] n’importe
quoi en le leur disant n’importe comment; et aussi bien le contraire le lendemain" does not fully convey the
causticity of the original. Perhaps something along the lines of “which one day tell them one piece of nonsense
only to reel off the exact opposite the next" might better hammer home the point.

p. 137, lines 8-9:
“is taken from them at an early age" might be better as “is taken from them very early on" [les enfants en bas âge]
to avoid ambiguity in the case of teenaged parents.

p.137, line 23:
“they are more like serfs" is perhaps over-elliptical for “Leur statut peut être plutôt comparé au servage".
Perhaps: “Their condition might be said to be more akin to serfdom".

p. 138, lines 7-16:
the progression of ideas linked by “par" and “par le fait qu’il" is perhaps under represented here which leads to a
slight alteration of what the author intended. Possibly: “But they also resemble modern proletarians by virtue
of the precariousness of their livelihood which conflicts with the strict routine governing their spending, by
virtue too of the fact that that they must hire themselves out on an open market whilst owning none of the tools of
their trade, and by virtue of the simple fact that they need money."

p. 138, lines 17-18:
again, “they are more like peons" is elliptical for “s’apparente plus précisément au système particulier du
“péonage". Rather “is more particularly akin to the specific system of “peonage" ". The OED defines the latter
as “The work or service of a peon; the system of having or using peons or enslaved debtors. In South America,
attendance upon a horse or mule. In Mexico, the condition of a peon serf, servitude for debt; the system of
holding peons. Also, in parts of southern U.S. an arrangement whereby convicts are leased to contractors."

p. 139, line 6:
“are reduced" is very odd for “on rogne sans gêne"; “are brazenly whittled away" would have been better.

p. 140, line 8:
“They drive their own cars" needs more qualification for “ils conduisent eux-mêmes leurs propres voitures".
“They themselves drive their own cars" [referring to the overwhelming number of car owners without chauffeurs].

line 14:
“flimsy professional qualifications" lacks the pointed detail of “leur qualification très indirectement productive":
something like “the qualifications that link them only very indirectly to productive labour" might better convey the
idea.

line 22:
“Those who never had…" should be “Those who had never had..." [Ceux qui n’avaient jamais eu...] – an allusion
to/rephrasing of the proverb “lâcher la proie pour l’ombre" [to give up the substance for the shadow]. “Ne lâchez
pas la proie pour l’ombre".

p. 147, lines 4-6:
“But as Swift remarked, ‘It is no small satisfaction to present a work that is beyond all criticism’ " for
“ce n’est pas une mince satisfaction pour moi que de présenter un ouvrage absolument au-dessus de toute critique"
mirrors a similar error in Forsyth. The quotation comes from “Oeuvres de Jonathan Swift: Voyages de Gulliver,
‘Voyage chez les Houyhnhnms’, chapitre XII (Gallimard, bibliothèque de la Pléiade, 1965 & 1988, page 303). What
Swift actually remarked was “I am not a little pleased that this Work of mine can possibly meet with no Censurers"
(A Voyage to the Houyhnhnms, chapter 12, in The Writings of Jonathan Swift, edited by Robert A. Greenberg and
William Bowman Piper, W.W. Norton & Co. New York & London, 1973, p. 257).

p. 147, lines 11-12:
“for some obscure reason nothing else was possible". The restructuring of this paragraph would seem to require
“absolutely nothing else was possible" in order to convey the emphasis in the original: “il n’y a eu littéralement
rien d’autre, et par là même que rien d’autre..."

line 20:
“expect revolutionary innovations" for “ici ou là des nouveautés révolutionnaires". The French is more qualified
and underpinned by a savage irony that the restructuring of this paragraph has not fully conveyed. Perhaps
“the odd/occasional revolutionary innovation".

p. 149, lines 3-5:
“This is one of the main reasons I have aroused such animosity on the part of my contemporaries" for “Il y a là de
quoi déplaire aux contemporains" could be condensed to “Here alone is matter enough to displease my contemporaries".

p. 150, lines 17-18:
“slightly remodel by rearranging a few bits of paper" might be better as “slightly remodel in one or two
crucial/fundamental respects [modifier un peu une ou deux bases] by rearranging..." the better to convey the searing
critique.

line 22:
“Like military units" is an odd translation of “ce sont des unités plus ou moins fortes": “they are units of varying
strength that must be sent...".